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goad

1 of 2

verb

ˈgōd How to pronounce goad (audio)
goaded; goading; goads

transitive verb

1
: to incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad entry 2 sense 2a)
was goaded into fighting with another player
2
: to drive (an animal) with a goad (see goad entry 2 sense 1)

goad

2 of 2

noun

1
: a pointed rod used to urge on an animal
2
a
: something that urges or stimulates into action : spur
The accident has been a goad to the company to improve its safety record.
b
: something that pains as if by pricking : thorn

Synonyms

Verb

Noun

Choose the Right Synonym for goad

motive, impulse, incentive, inducement, spur, goad mean a stimulus to action.

motive implies an emotion or desire operating on the will and causing it to act.

a motive for the crime

impulse suggests a driving power arising from personal temperament or constitution.

buying on impulse

incentive applies to an external influence (such as an expected reward) inciting to action.

a bonus was offered as an incentive

inducement suggests a motive prompted by the deliberate enticements or allurements of another.

offered a watch as an inducement to subscribe

spur applies to a motive that stimulates the faculties or increases energy or ardor.

fear was a spur to action

goad suggests a motive that keeps one going against one's will or desire.

thought insecurity a goad to worker efficiency

Example Sentences

Verb The threat of legal action should goad them into complying. tried to goad me into auditioning for the play Noun The threat of legal action is a powerful goad to companies that have ignored the regulations. the threat of skin cancer—not to mention the prospect of wrinkles—should be sufficient goad for using sunscreen
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
Officials in Kyiv say the Russian attacks seek to goad Ukrainian forces into responding. Isabel Coles, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022 Some countries have no desire to goad the Russian bear. New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022 Although more than 100,000 Russian troops are massed on Ukraine’s border, Putin faulted the West for causing tensions, depicting a deliberate attempt to goad Moscow into making a military move. Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022 Sigal and his colleagues have found that Omicron infections in unvaccinated people don’t goad the immune system into churning out antibodies that recognize other variants very well. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 1 Feb. 2022 Third shots can also goad the immune system into broadening its range of coronavirus-fighting tools, so that kids end up ready to duel even antibody-dodging variants such as Omicron. Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2022 Some creators don’t necessarily try to goad performers into saying outrageous things about camera, but center their entire channels around their interactions with performers, such as flirting with Disney princesses. Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 12 Jan. 2022 But that doesn’t square with the serious decisions that came before this: decarceration, prioritization for the vaccines, and expenditure of resources to goad prisoners to queue up for the vaccine. Chandra Bozelko, STAT, 20 Nov. 2021 Internalizing that fact is an important task, not least because doing so might goad us to develop a nimbleness in our response to disasters and resilience in our supply chains once the worst discrete weather events have receded. Damon Linker, The Week, 18 Nov. 2021
Noun
Thus began Johns’s career-long fascination with signs and symbols — not as a subject for representation, but as a goad to pure painting. Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021 Politics now in Illinois is about herding the people, using their emotions as the shepherd’s goad. John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 20 Feb. 2021 It’s not solely Republicans who find themselves on the wrong end of Trump’s lash and goad. Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner, 17 Dec. 2020 Morton is applying those lessons to winning local district councils, which have the ability to declare local climate emergencies that serve as a goad to the federal government. Scott Wilson, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2020 The book also served, throughout, as a worthwhile goad, spurring me to test its assertions against my own uneasy re-experience — as both avid user and resistant consumer of social photography. Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2019 The only difference was that, during Marcus’s birth, the amplified heartbeat was with us through the entire labor, a goad, and solace. Jon Michaud, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2019 Stories like those emanating from San Francisco General can be powerful goads to federal lawmakers. Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2019 Their fairly gentle demeanor means handlers can manage them with verbal commands and the judicious use of goad sticks. Denise Coffey, courant.com, 17 June 2019 See More

Word History

Etymology

Noun and Verb

Middle English gode, from Old English gād spear, goad; akin to Langobardic gaida spear, and perhaps to Sanskrit hinoti he urges on

First Known Use

Verb

1579, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Noun

before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of goad was before the 12th century

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